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AUDIO: Oklahoma Head Coach Brent Venables Auburn Post Game Press Conference · Sooner or Later Sports

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Well, good evening. Well what a heck of a game
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: with an ending. We had all the theatrics today. Really
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: thankful for our fans. Gave them a game ball today
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  Speaker 1: that really affected and impacted the game all game long.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: That was the energy in the stadium all afternoon. Was
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: really really cool. Proud of our players, the determination, the resolve,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: the grit, their ability to overcome, keep fighting back, keep striking.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: I told him at halftime, this is going to come
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: down to the last drive of the game, and then
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: don't worry about what happened in the first half, good
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  Speaker 1: or bad. Alls of matters what we do the next
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes. And you know, make your plays when you
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: have your opportunity to and they're not going to be
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: not gonna be a whole lot of them to be had,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: but man it at the right time. We got to
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: compliment each other, and I really no doubt about it.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I really loved the way we played defensively in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. I thought we were outstanding all game long.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: In our special teams again three out of three in
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  Speaker 1: field goals. Our coverage units were fabulous. I mean, our
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  Speaker 1: guys really strained. It's one of the better return units
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  Speaker 1: in college football, and they did a great job and
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  Speaker 1: with their strain and effort and physicality covering, and then
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  Speaker 1: Setania did a really nice job possessing the ball. And
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  Speaker 1: then Grayson Miller, I don't know what his averages since
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: he took over a couple of weeks ago, but five
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: punts for just south of fifty five yards a punt,
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: and what a huge impact that had, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: a field position standpoint, had in the game. It wasn't
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: always pretty. That's football playing good people, but really I
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: felt like our defensive line we talked about going into
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  Speaker 1: the game, the only on negotiable that has to happen
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: for us to win this game is when the storyline
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: has to say, y'all played your butt off and affected
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  Speaker 1: both the run game and and their ability to pass
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  Speaker 1: the ball. And I know they didn't They're not the
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: only ones that were part of that, but we had
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: a record ten sacks and our Mason Thomas came off
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  Speaker 1: the off the bench and really impacted the game. Again, man,
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: what you know, the we were a little leaky and
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  Speaker 1: coverage at times. We knew they were really good and
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  Speaker 1: some one on one opportunities wouldn't be ideal. For anybody,
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  Speaker 1: But we got to play them better, We got to
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  Speaker 1: put them in a better position, we got to put
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: them in better calls. But really the second half, again
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they had close to forty yards
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  Speaker 1: maybe in the second half or so, but really excellent job.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody contributed. At least six guys caught caught passes and uh,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: but uh, Grayson and Sandel, they were they were awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So we